. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. , and it looked as if they would drownbefore the eyes of the watchers upon the land. Presently a gentleman came along the beachaccompanied byhis Newfound-land dog. Thegentleman direc-ted the animalsattention to thevessel, and thenput a short stickin his dog at oncecomprehendedhis mastersmeaning andplunged into thesea. Bravely hefought his waythrough the an-gry waves, buthe could not getclose enough tothe vessel to de-liver that withwhich he hadbeen crew, how-ever, understoodwhat was wanted,and making fa
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. , and it looked as if they would drownbefore the eyes of the watchers upon the land. Presently a gentleman came along the beachaccompanied byhis Newfound-land dog. Thegentleman direc-ted the animalsattention to thevessel, and thenput a short stickin his dog at oncecomprehendedhis mastersmeaning andplunged into thesea. Bravely hefought his waythrough the an-gry waves, buthe could not getclose enough tothe vessel to de-liver that withwhich he hadbeen crew, how-ever, understoodwhat was wanted,and making fasta rope to anotherpiece of wood,they threw thewood toward thedog. The intelligent animal at once dropped his ownpiece of wood and seized that which had beenthrown to him. Then he started for the and again he was lost under the waves,but with almost incredible determination he heldon to the stick and dragged the rope throughthe surf till he delivered it to his master. Aline of communication was thus made with thevessel, and every man on board was Then he started for the shore. We take the following from The GoldenPenny :— We recently pub-Tiger V. lished an extract from AnimalLioness. Life, describing a duel between a lioness and a donkey. A fight of a somewhatsimilar character has just caused great sensationin Western Australia. A fine lioness hadbeen suffering from a persistent nervousailment. It was decided to place a tiger withher for first it seemedas if the animalswould agree allright, as theypurred and rub-bed each othersheads throughthe bars withgreat afterwardsthe lioness beganto get snappy,and dealt thetiger some blowsthat would havebroken the headof any otherbeast, and whenshe gave him asharp bite heseized the lionessand bit herthrough thethroat, laceratingthe neck in afrightful dragged herround the cage,and once threwher right overhis back. Thelioness showedgreat pluck, andfought with all her strength, but t
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